The activity on education aims at promoting CSP research and this on two levels:

The first activity consists of annual summer or winter schools aiming at presenting the SFERA Solar facilities

to potential users and at teaching theoretically the scientific basis of CSP activities to a whole range of public.The activity also aims at transferring the knowledge gained in the project to students as well as researchers orengineers from industry.

The second activity is intended towards internal educational outreach. As far as the project consortium is

concerned, the main objective of this task is to organize annual doctoral colloquia with the partners’ PhDstudents in order to inform SFERA participants of main results, proposals and cooperation domains. This actionis focused on strengthening the cooperation between the partners of the project in order to improve the servicesto the users.

Major expected impacts would be to attract talented scientists and potential new PhD students or post-doc andarouse a strong motivation for CSP research, which would then increase and foster the use of the EuropeanInfrastructures.